It's not enough to be a good person. You also have to show it.

Sensuality is the death of the soul.

If certain women walk straight into adultery, there are many others who cling to numerous hopes, and commit sin only after wandering through a maze of sorrows.

Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.

To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.